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Q2 Metals Announces Details of its Expansion Drill Program for the Cisco Lithium Project in Eeyou Istchee James Bay, Quebec

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Q2 Metals Announces Details of its Expansion Drill Program for the Cisco

Lithium Project in Eeyou Istchee James Bay, Quebec

Highlights

• The 2025 Winter Drill Program is fully funded and anticipated to commence February 1,

2025.

• The 2025 Winter Drill Program is targeting 6,000 – 8,000 metres (“m”) of drilling using

two diamond drill rigs.

• The primary objective is to continue to expand upon the exceptional drill results from

the 2024 drill campaign.

Video Overview of Q2 Metals and the Cisco Lithium Project

Vancouver, British Columbia, January 20, 202 5 – Q2 Metals Corp. (TSX.V: QTWO | OTCQB:

QUEXF | FSE: 458) (“Q2” or the “ Company”) is pleased to announce that the 2025 Winter Drill

Program (the “2025 Winter Program”) at its Cisco Lithium Project (the “Project” or the “Cisco

Project”) is anticipated to begin on February 1, 2025. Crews will be mobilizing to the Cisco Project

over the course of the next week.

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The primary objective of the 2025 Winter Program is to continue to expand upon the exceptional

drill results from the 2024 drill campaign which included:

• Drill hole CS-24-018 - 215.6 m at 1.69% Li2O

• Drill hole CS-24-021 - 347.1 m at 1.35% Li2O; and

• Drill hole CS-24-023 - 188.6 m at 1.56% Li2O

Alicia Milne, Q2 Metals President and CEO commented : “We are excited to get back to work on

the Cisco Project to continue to reveal its true potential and look forward to unlocking further

value for our shareholders as we expand on the known mineralization zone by stepping out into

untested areas of the Project."

“Since completing the 2024 Drill Program, our team has been evaluating all of the data that was

collected to gain a better understanding of what we’re seeing at Cisco,” stated Neil McCallum,

Q2 Metals VP of Exploration. “We have several highly promising targets that we are eager to

explore to better understand the extent of Cisco.”

The 2025 Winter Program is planned to continue until mid-April 2025, targeting 6,000 – 8,000 m

of drilling. Once the program begins, systematic drilling will be carried out with step outs between

200 and 400 m apart (Figure 1 and Figure 2).

Figure 1 Map showing 2025 Winter Program drill targets

One diamond drill rig will test to the southwest of drill hole CS-24-023 to define the strike length,

and the other drill rig will test to the east of drill hole CS-24-018 and CS-24-021 to define potential

additional parallel pegmatite zones.

Figure 2. Long Section containing all holes drilled to date (looking southwest)

Upcoming Events:

AME Roundup Core Shack

Q2 is pleased to have been selected as a participant in the core shack at the upcoming AME

annual Roundup conference being held in Vancouver, BC from January 20 – 23, 2025.

Vice President of Exploration Neil McCallum as well as senior project geologists will be on hand

with core from the 2024 drill season at Cisco. Mr. McCallum will also be presenting at the Critical

and Base Metals Speaker Session on Tuesday January 21, 2025.

For more information on AME Roundup, please click here.

PDAC Booth and Core Shack

The Company will be attending and exhibiting on site at the 2025 Prospectors & Developers

Association of Canada event (“PDAC 2025”) in Toronto, ON. Q2 is exhibiting in the Investors

Exchange from March 2 – 5, 2025 at booth number 2726.

Additionally, Q2 Metals is pleased to announce that the Company has been selected to exhibit

core from the Cisco Lithium Project at PDAC 2025. More details to be provided as the event

approaches.

For more information on PDAC 2025, please click here.

About Q2 Metals Corp

Q2 Metals is a Canadian mineral exploration company focused on unlocking its portfolio of

lithium projects in the Eeyou Istchee James Bay region of Quebec, Canada, that includes both the

Cisco Lithium Project and its 100-per-cent-owned Mia Lithium Project.

The Cisco Project is comprised of 767 claims, totaling 39,389 hectares (“ha”). The Cisco Project

transects the Billy Diamond Highway, and the main mineralized zone is located only 6.5

kilometres (“km”) away from the highway. The Cisco Project is approximately 150 km north of

Matagami, a small town that contains the closest rail link to much of James Bay; and is within the

greater Nemaska traditional territory of the Eeyou Istchee Territory, James Bay, Quebec.

The Cisco Project is situated along the Frotet Evans Greenstone Belt, comprised of a volcanic

package dominated by mafic to felsic metavolcanic rocks, of the southern James Bay Lithium

District, the same belt that hosts the Sirmac and Moblan lithium deposits, located 130 k m and

180 km away, respectively.

The Cisco Lithium Project has district-scale potential with an already identified mineralized zone

and discovery drill results that include:

• 120.3 metres at 1.72% Li2O (hole CS-24-010);

• 215.6 metres at 1.69% Li2O (hole CS-24-018);

• 347.1 metres at 1.35% Li2O (hole CS-24-021); and

• 188.6 metres at 1.56% Li2O (hole CS-24-023)

Since May 2024, the Company has drilled a total of 6,359.7 m over 17 holes. All drill holes

intercepted pegmatite with visual indications of spodumene mineralization identified.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:

Alicia Milne Jason McBride

President & CEO Corporate Communications

[email protected] [email protected]

Telephone: 1 (800) 482-7560

E-mail: [email protected]

WWW.Q2Metals.com

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Qualified Person

Neil McCallum, B.Sc., P.Geol, a registered permit holder with the Ordre des Géologues du Québec and Qualified

Person as defined by NI 43 -101 (“QP”), has reviewed and approved the technical information in this news release.

Mr. McCallum is a director and VP Exploration for Q2.

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greenstone rocks in the area, the possibility of future development and mining infrastructure scenarios, the potential

for development, the potential scale of the Cisco Project, the focus of the Company’s current and future exploration

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